An Iranian girl holds a picture of Qassem Soleimani, during a ceremony to mark the fourth anniversary of the killing of senior Iranian military commander General Qassem Soleimani in a U.S. attack, in Tehran, Iran, January 3, 2024.
Credit: West Asia News Agency via Reuters
Washington: Two explosions that killed nearly 100 people and wounded scores at a ceremony in Iran on Wednesday looked like a "terrorist attack" of the kind ISIS has been responsible for in the past, a senior Biden administration official said on Wednesday.
The official, speaking to reporters, said "it does look like a terrorist attack, the type of thing we've seen ISIS do in the past, and as far as we are aware that is kind of, I think, our going assumption at the moment."
The ceremony was to commemorate commander Qassem Soleimani who was killed by a US drone in 2020 ordered by then-President Donald Trump. No one claimed responsibility for the blasts.